How should children be raised? What they should be taught? These are questions for the ages and the responsibility parents are tasked with. However, they do not do all the work. The people around children also influence their beliefs about the world such as other family members, strangers, or teaching…

Negative self-talk can take many forms. Maybe we are too harsh on ourselves when we look back on our previous actions. Maybe we feel embarrassed or ashamed and cannot let the past go. This fixation can have serious repercussions on our mental health and self-confidence. Likewise, being harsh to others…

Vision, taste, touch, hearing, and smell, are the vertebrates’ five commonly- known senses. However, another sense is exclusive to some groups of animals such as birds and insects. For decades, how birds orient themselves and migrate across landscapes has been a mystery to scientists. In 1970, a physicist proposed the…

Effective stress management is a key feature in fitness. It is not only a form of self-care, but a strategy to improve mental health, even if one doesn’t know much about the topic. There are many tools available to manage stressors, triggers, or worries that don’t rely on a colorful…

Sensitivity is a characteristic that has many interpretations in the Western world and its definition in the local populace can greatly vary from its established definition. Sensitivity is also represented in many different ways in fiction: a person who cries easily, someone who is good at taking care of others…

It’s no secret that Latin America has a high rate of poverty, both physical and intellectual. Menstrual health education is something I haven’t heard much if at all after 6th grade. It was thanks to a friend in India that I learned about menstrual cups, faced menstruation and all the…

As I was taking some notes about Shu Omi’s Writing Inbox in Roam, I got the idea to try it out in Notion to understand his workflow better. It’s the first time I have tried recreating a page on Roam in Notion but I’m pretty happy with the result. …